NIGHT SPEEDING A DANGER
The director of the American Roadbuilders' Association, Mr. C. M. Upham, noting that statistics show that since 1930 night traffic fatalities have increased 40 per cent., whereas daylight fatalities show a decrease of 3 per cent., attributes the position to the development of the motor vehicle itself. Their rapidity "has catapulted the highwayuser beyond the security he used to enjoy within the range of his headlights at a slower speed and in a less powerful vehicle." This is a point that many drivers overlook. Motor vehicles today are capable of such speed that it is easy— quite unawares—to drive at a speed beyond one's ability to stop in the clear distance ahead, let alone the half part of it. Until the problem of highway lighting is solved there can be no safety in speeding at. night, either for those in the car or the unfortunates without it.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 50, 27 August 1938, Page 28
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151NIGHT SPEEDING A DANGER Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 50, 27 August 1938, Page 28
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